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Re: How can I contact the administrator?

From Piergiorgio Sartor <piergiorgio.sartor.this.should.not.be.used@nexgo.REMOVETHIS.de>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject Re: How can I contact the administrator?
Date 2018-08-25 11:58 +0200
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
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On 2018-08-25 11:35, Richard Kettlewell wrote:
> Piergiorgio Sartor
> <piergiorgio.sartor.this.should.not.be.used@nexgo.REMOVETHIS.de> writes:
>> One of the problems is also that there is a weak
>> connection between a person asking to delete a post
>> and the fact that this person was the original author.
>>
>> In other words, how can you prove you were the author
>> of the posts you asked to delete?
>> The email address in the posts is not a valid
>> authentication mechanism, since anybody can put
>> anything there.
> 
> If someone who isn’t wong.jim1980 forges their address, I’d be
> comfortable with wong.jim1980 being able to delete the resulting posts
> as easily as messages they posted themselves.

But it could be the other way around.

Someone can claim posts made with the "wong.jim1980" address
and ask to delete them, without being "wong.jim1980".

In theory, the "administrator" should then contact the
address in the post and ask for confirmation.
I guess this would be impractical.

bye,

-- 

piergiorgio

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How can I contact the administrator? wong.jim1980@gmail.com - 2018-08-24 23:03 -0700
  Re: How can I contact the administrator? Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2018-08-25 08:07 +0100
    Re: How can I contact the administrator? wong.jim1980@gmail.com - 2018-08-25 00:14 -0700
      Re: How can I contact the administrator? Piergiorgio Sartor <piergiorgio.sartor.this.should.not.be.used@nexgo.REMOVETHIS.de> - 2018-08-25 11:13 +0200
        Re: How can I contact the administrator? Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2018-08-25 10:35 +0100
          Re: How can I contact the administrator? Piergiorgio Sartor <piergiorgio.sartor.this.should.not.be.used@nexgo.REMOVETHIS.de> - 2018-08-25 11:58 +0200
            Re: How can I contact the administrator? Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2018-08-25 11:21 +0100
              Re: How can I contact the administrator? Piergiorgio Sartor <piergiorgio.sartor.this.should.not.be.used@nexgo.REMOVETHIS.de> - 2018-08-25 12:35 +0200
                Re: How can I contact the administrator? Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2018-08-25 11:47 +0100
                Re: How can I contact the administrator? Piergiorgio Sartor <piergiorgio.sartor.this.should.not.be.used@nexgo.REMOVETHIS.de> - 2018-08-25 12:55 +0200
                Re: How can I contact the administrator? Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2018-08-25 12:13 +0100
                Re: How can I contact the administrator? wong.jim1980@gmail.com - 2018-08-25 08:52 -0700
                Re: How can I contact the administrator? Piergiorgio Sartor <piergiorgio.sartor.this.should.not.be.used@nexgo.REMOVETHIS.de> - 2018-08-25 18:11 +0200
                Re: How can I contact the administrator? Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2018-08-25 19:49 +0100
                Re: How can I contact the administrator? "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2018-08-31 11:18 -0400
                Re: How can I contact the administrator? Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2018-08-31 21:36 +0100
        Re: How can I contact the administrator? queequeg@trust.no1 (Queequeg) - 2018-08-30 10:07 +0000

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